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Chapter 192: A change in fortune
"Your aptitude is truly abysmal. Even with my guidance, you still couldn't break through to the tenth layer of Qi Refining."
An Illusion-Tailed Fox, silver-white all over and the size of a house cat, suddenly spoke in a voice as sultry as a young married woman's.
Had Chen Beiwu been there to see this, he would certainly have been astonished.
Illusion-Tailed Foxes were the most common low-grade first-tier exotic beasts in the Immortal Alliance.
These exotic beasts possessed a basic sensitivity to ice-type Spirit Power. The fur on their tails could release concealment Variant Arts in response to the temperature changes between day and night, hence their name.
Illusion-Tailed Foxes were weak in combat, and their bloodline talents were unremarkable. Few cultivators with ice spiritual roots were willing to contract one as a Companion Beast; they were generally kept as ornamental pets.
Yet a Companion Beast capable of refining its transverse throat bone and speaking human language had to be at least a Second-Realm Lesser Demon.
Some Treasure Beasts with exceptional talents and powerful bloodlines even had to advance to Third-Realm Demon General before they could accomplish this.
By rights, a low-grade first-tier Illusion-Tailed Fox could not possibly speak human language unless its bloodline evolved and it advanced to the second realm.
"Senior Hu, without cultivation resources, how am I supposed to break through to the Qi Refining Limit?" Chen Qin glanced at the Illusion-Tailed Fox, her tone helpless.
Curiously enough, her chance meeting with Senior Hu had taken place at the Pet Beast Wholesale Market.
Because feed was too expensive and the Illusion-Tailed Fox remained unsold, the Pet Beast Shop's owner had begun considering selling it to a butcher's shop.
Chen Qin had happened to pass by at the time when Senior